CONTENTS. 



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Result of preparing a portion of two bales of Flax, and hemp sent 

 from Brittany by merchants in Paris, to be prepared in the 

 presence of the French Government Engineer, J. B. Pas- 

 locerau, Lalasse, and others 



195 



Letter of complaint and loss of cases of fibre, by the Armagh 

 Railway Manager ; neglect of duty 



196—200 



Calculation of expense and profit of growing and selling green un- 

 steeped Flax, by the author's patent machinery for preparin g 



201 



Calculations, if followed up by steeping in his patent liquid, and 

 remarks on the imports 



202—204 



Letter to " Bell's Messenger " on the subject of a market for green 



Flax-straw, and the value when prepared .... 205 — 209 

 London Flax-brokers and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Flax-spinners, value 



Yisit of London Flax merchants and the Right Hon. Lord Lovaine, 

 Mr. T. P. Oakes, and Col. Alcock, to see the machines at work, 

 and report of Mr. Lee, Editor of "Bell's Messenger," also present 211—212 



Messrs. Marshall's report on the quantity they can produce 

 by a given weight of Flax- straw ; also Mr. Andrews, Mr. 

 Warn, Mr. McAdam, and the author .... 214 — 215 



Report of experiments on all kinds of Flax, including phormium tenax, 

 valued, when prepared by DicKson's patent machinery, alone, 

 at £40 to £50 per ton, by J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., retired 

 partner of Hives & Atkinson, Leeds 216—218 



Letter to the " Banner of Ulster," in 1856, on the importance and 

 advantage of power-loom weaving, stating the fact that I was 

 the first man to introduce a power -loom into Belfast, which I 

 superintended the alterations and working in Leeds required, 

 and brought back with me to Belfast the first two perfect webs 

 of linen and linen drill 220—226 



Calculation of weaving linen by hand, and weaving by power, by 



my system, and by the common system now followed . . 227—230 



Report on Irish scutching-mills in the four provinces, Ulster, 



Munster, Leinster, and Connaught 231 232 



Report of Mr. Crisp, Editor of the " Agricultural Magazine," on the 

 working of the machines on Russian hemp and Flax, Indian 

 fibres and Italian hemp . 233—234 



Italian Hemp and Flax Company in Italy and the cause of failure, 

 being the want of my improved machines in consequence of 

 Curte Piccotto's failure 237 — 238 



The " Cork Reporter " on the Flax subject, and Dickson's Indian 

 fibres, and their state of perfection when exhibited at their 

 office, by Mr. Biggs, of Cork 239 — 341 



on the green Flax prepared by the patent machines 



210 



